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February 26 Roads
Roads
In Europe roads are built that go to the beach. Here in the USA we seem to build roads alongside the beach. February 13 School Drop Off II
School Drop Off II
Okay, different school, different drop off rules. Every morning Roque and I go to Starbucks and then off to school. We get in line at school and wait to get up to the drop off area so Roque can get out. Every day several SUVs (it’s always an SUV) race past me in the left lane and rush up to the front of the drop off area and swoop in and drop their kid off. Now. I appreciate that in life there are people more-important-than-me and people in-a-rush, heck, perhaps it’s a doctor who has to drop his child off before rushing off to perform some life saving operation. I just wish these doctors and important people would think a little more ahead of time so they didn’t have to rush on by me while I wait patiently in line. Imagine if they tried this tactic anywhere else. Say, Starbucks for instance and see what kind of result they would get there. I’m betting even if there was a life saving operation on the line that the result would not be positive. Why people think that their SUV makes this somehow less rude is beyond me. What gets me even more is that they will then rush off and break the speed limit in the school zone. Yup, that’s more of a guideline than a rule, you know, for the safety of our children. Graeme. February 12 Eject Button
Eject Button
I love my Blu Ray and HD DVD players. I love the picture and sound. I love movies on them. I HATE the experience. Let’s look at the eject button. Like a toaster or, I don’t know, a DVD player, it should eject the disc when I press the button. On every next generation player I’ve tried this can take upwards of 60 seconds between said finger press and actually getting the disc. That’s just not acceptable. It’s hardware. Give me the disc I just asked for NOW. I don’t care what OS you’re booting, what website you’re connecting to, what Java stack you’re initializing. Give me the disc NOW!! NOW!!! I mean, I want the disc so I can insert a new one which is going to start your multi minute loading thing again, why go through that with the disc in there when I pressed the EJECT button? So I take my revenge on the player. I hit the eject button A LOT. So what does the player do? It ejects the disc and then retracts it back in, which means I HAVE TO START AGAIN. AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH. So next time I hold onto the ejected disc tray, I fight with it because it want to go back in, it whirrs and moans, it pulls against me, it hates me back, but I want that disc, and by gosh I own you so give me the disc you little piece of electronic bad word. The eject button, in my humble opinion, is not a request, it’s an order. An order to be fulfilled instantly. I understand computers and their need to do whatever their programmer wants before they can act. I really do, but for the love of HD, JUST GIVE ME THE DISC when I ask for it. Graeme. January 29 Old Blogs
Old Blogs
I’ve been moving stuff out of our old house for a few weeks now and one of the things I’m having to go through is all the boxes of stuff from Trilobyte. I’ve avoided all those boxes for a very long time. Memories of Trilobyte are very mixed, and, perhaps fortunately, a lot of it is forgotten. But Trilobyte remains something I am very proud of and not a day goes by without some reminder of former glory. I’ve come across two things recently though that have brought back a lot of memories. Boxes of photographs and books of blog printouts. The photographs were all pictures that marketing had taken. Parties, launch events, trade shows. We had a Scottish Highland band walk around E3 for the Clandestiny launch! We had awesome Christmas parties! We had really awesome launch events! I’m very thankful to Jane LaFevre, Trilobyte’s marketing VP, for archiving all these photographs and putting them into one box. I also found my blogs which I read again with very mixed feelings. I worked almost around the clock for many years at Trilobyte, even through the birth of Roque, and it’s very emotional to go and read those blogs again. Many of them are technical, some of them are funny (I just watched the premiere of “The X Files” review) and a lot of them are sad to read with the perspective I have now. I want to get all of this onto a computer. Trilobyte was many things, but it was also many great things. We were one of the first companies with a website, we made a breakthrough game, we survived many a storm, and in the end broke many a heart. While I find it tough going through those boxes, I’m going to go through them. Graeme. January 26 I can't believe it...
I can't believe it...
The Steve Jobs reality distortion field is just too strong... I’m selling my NeXT system on Ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/NEXT-Computer-system-SUPER-BUNDLE_W0QQitemZ270207112548QQihZ017QQcategoryZ51046QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem So I can maybe get an Air.... Okay, so it’s a little old... Graeme. |
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